The best atmospheric indie games, ranked by reviews

Data report Assembled from live indielist data on 2026-06-06. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 276 atmospheric indie games on Steam, holding 11,662,462 reviews at an average of 90% positive. This list ranks them by Steam review count, the most reliable public sales proxy, with a white-box sales estimate behind every title. The most reviewed is Terraria with 1,216,936 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

1. Terraria · 1,216,936 reviews · 97% positive · 2011
2. Euro Truck Simulator 2 · 766,249 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
3. The Forest · 571,186 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
4. Hollow Knight · 487,212 reviews · 97% positive · 2017
5. Lethal Company · 409,659 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
6. Don't Starve Together · 367,214 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
7. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth · 358,090 reviews · 97% positive · 2014
8. Subnautica · 332,025 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
9. No Man's Sky · 307,639 reviews · 85% positive · 2016
10. Hades · 281,390 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
11. It Takes Two · 212,529 reviews · 95% positive · 2021
12. Dead Cells · 153,662 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
13. Stray · 153,144 reviews · 97% positive · 2022
14. Kingdom Come: Deliverance · 139,857 reviews · 84% positive · 2018
15. Darkest Dungeon® · 138,483 reviews · 92% positive · 2016
16. Ori and the Will of the Wisps · 134,118 reviews · 97% positive · 2020
17. Black Mesa · 132,766 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
18. Celeste · 126,910 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
19. Life is Strange - Episode 1 · 122,835 reviews · 96% positive · 2015
20. Starbound · 120,579 reviews · 90% positive · 2016

How this list is built

Games are ranked by Steam review count, the most reliable public proxy for sales when actual figures are private. Each title links to its indielist page, where the white-box sales estimate expands into the full Boxleiter formula, so you can audit the number rather than trust a black box. Review counts come from Steam; sales figures are modeled estimates, not official sales data.

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